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At invented epidemic A/H1N1 pharmacists earned 7 billion euros

Scientists from several countries have accused the World Health Organization (WHO) in that it declared the pandemic of swine influenza in the interest of large pharmaceutical companies. According to experts, pharmacists have earned on the epidemic up to 7 billion euros. At the same time anywhere in the world death rate from swine flu did not exceed mortality from seasonal influenza. WHO insist that the epidemic was declared by all the rules.

The British newspaper Guardian Òhe and some European media have published the views of independent epidemiologists – Englishman Thomas Jefferson from the independent association of scientists and the Cochrane Collaboration his colleagues from the United States William Engdahl, – accuse the WHO of inflating the risk of swine flu. Scientists believe that the WHO’s lead expert associated with the pharmaceutical companies. According to Jefferson, a team of WHO experts, in particular the head of strategic advisory group on Influenza British Professor David Salisbury, “gets them a salary and working with them. Independent experts believe that the panic over the virus A/H1N1 provoked WHO experts, a virologist from the Netherlands Ostenhaus Albert, who was in professional circles the nickname Dr. Influenza. Ostenhaus many occasions expressed deadly swine flu and urged European countries to mass vaccination, writes Kommersant-Ukraine ».

According to independent scientists, such policies led to WHO in June this year, announced the upgrade of the threat of swine flu pandemic to the maximum, the sixth level in the interests of business structures, although the mortality rate from this disease did not exceed the death rate from normal seasonal influenza. According to the latest WHO data, in the world of him died 7826 people. The last time the WHO announced on the sixth level of the pandemic in 1968, when the Hong Kong strain of influenza virus have died around 1 million people.

WHO’s decision to declare a pandemic caused panic around the world. Governments of various countries contributed to the purchase of drugs from the swine flu at least 7 billion euros. The organization strongly recommended for the prevention and treatment of disease, only two drugs – manufactured by Roche Tamiflu and Relenza (manufacturer – GlaxoSmithKline). According to the company Roche, in 2008, sales of Tamiflu were about $600 million, and in 2009, projected the company, the sale will total $2.6 billion

In Ukraine, According to the Ministry of Health, posted on the official site, since the beginning of the epidemic there were 32 cases of swine influenza (flu and colds just sick over 2.2 million people). For the treatment and prevention of A/H1N1 in the country was imported 615 thousand packages medication costs 67 UAH per package. According to the head of the State service of medical products and medical products Constantine Kosyachenko, pharmacies have been sold “several hundred packages drugs, after which the government began to distribute ‘Tamiflu’ for free».

WHO insists that the pandemic has been declared by all the rules. “In April 2009, when they were first identified human cases of influenza A/H1N1, was quite clear how serious the consequences it might entail – said a special adviser to WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza, Keiji Fukuda .- Therefore, WHO has initiated all possible measures to protect people, including cooperation with a number of global partners ».

As reported, the number of victims of influenza and SARS rose in Ukraine up to 472 people, of whom three, including one child died last night.

epidemic threshold incidence of influenza and SARS as of Tuesday once again exceeded in Vinnitsa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Lugansk, Sumy regions. Ministry of Health does not provide operational data on cases of the disease pandemic influenza A/H1N1.